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NWRPC-0184 Front
Date(s)
- c. 1989 (Creation)
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- Originally conceived as an alternative to the area's many saloons, this first branch library grew from the Women's Christian Temperance Union's South Tacoma Reading Room that was opened in 1905. The building that housed the first South Tacoma Branch was dedicated in 1911, and the current building opened in 1959. circa 1989.
- Printed on front: The Tacoma Public Library